Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications

Research Interests

I study the causes and consequences of primate social behavior in a range of species. As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I initially studied social learning in cotton-top tamarins in collaboration with Dr. Charles Snowdon. Through this research, I became interested in primate behavioral flexibility in response to social and ecological variables. For my dissertation research I collaborated with Dr. Michael Huffman to examine the socio-ecology of a unique chimpanzee population descended from founders introduced to Rubondo island, Tanzania over forty years ago. From 2006-2009 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied social bonds between adult males and juveniles and between unrelated female chacma baboons in the Moremi Reserve, Botswana in collaboration with Drs. Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth. Currently I am pursuing research on the endocrine mediators of social behavior in humans and in non-human primates.